Creating a Commons
“Creating a Commons”
- Bess Sadler, Stanford University Library, bess@stanford.edu
The difference between an open source software project that gets new adopters and new contributing community members (which is to say, a project that goes on existing for any length of time) and a project that doesn’t, often isn’t a question of superior design or technology. It’s more often a question of whether the advocates for the project can convince institutional leaders AND front line developers that a project is stable and trustworthy. What are successful strategies for attracting development partners? I’ll try to answer that and talk about what we could do as a community to make collaboration easier.